| ACROSS |
| 1 | Pictures of a thousand mountains (6) |
| 4 | It reflects on space station, or on tail of meteor (6) |
| 9 | Declining would be good about now (8) |
| 10 | Overturned self-contained morning conflagrations (6) |
| 12 | Smooths out the odds? (5) |
| 13 | Ailing university with tunnels lit up (9) |
| 14 | As opposed to iron, it is forged (11) |
| 17 | Cheeky little fellow disrupted Internet (11) |
| 21 | Central tavern with more disruption on the street (9) |
| 23 | Fungi, nevertheless, having a sexual origin (5) |
| 24 | Pistol containing barium metal (6) |
| 25 | An account of disgust (8) |
| 26 | Dull to read about railway termini (6) |
| 27 | Pleas to fence in humans? (6) |